Radio Bombay Eau de Parfum
A woody born from the smell of a heated '69 Fender amp: an imagined sandalwood radio playing ragas in a hot Bandra shop, rebuilding Mysore santal from its parts.
Perfumer: David Seth Moltz
The creator is interested in hypothetical scent: objects that suggest a fragrance without having a strong one. The spark was a '69 Fender Deluxe amp. Heated up after hard playing, its back gives off a hot, dusty, metallic grease perfume, the scent of backstage in a humid venue.
So what if a tube amplifier sat inside an old radio made of sandalwood? The heat would open the pores of the wood and release puffs of musky cedar, peach, coconut, lactones and milk. Radio Bombay rebuilds an impression of Mysore sandalwood from those contrasting aspects, with copper, cedar, sandalwood, boronia and a coconut-musk accord among the listed notes.
The creator places the radio in a small, hot shop in Bandra, called the "Brooklyn" of Bombay. The heat breaks down the oils in the wood while ragas and Geeta Dutt tunes jangle out of its tiny speaker into the busy city.
